My research and teaching interests focus on British and European modernism and critical theory, particularly psychoanalysis and feminism. My first book, The Poetics of Impersonality: T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound , takes a deconstructive approach to these poets' work, analyzing how their championship of literary impersonality – i.e. the disappearance of the poet in the poem - reveals their divided political and philosophical allegiances. My second book, The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonment , examines the phenomenon of self-starvation, ranging from Samuel Richardson's Clarissa to Bobby Sands, the iconic martyr of the Irish Hunger Strike of 1981. What these starvers have in common is the inverse relationship of food to words; the less they eat, the more they write. Imprisonment, imposed from without or from within, intensifies this struggle between word and flesh, in which the body seems to be devoured by its own loquacity. The theme of imprisonment reemerges in my third book on Elizabeth Bowen, the Anglo-Irish writer whose fiction is obsessed with architectural and psychic enclosures and encryptments. My most recent book, The Nets of Modernism , attempts to sharpen our sense of what's been called the "dissolution of the self" in modernist fiction, particularly by exploring the significance of images of bodily violation and exchange – scar, bite, wound, and their psychic equivalents – to the modernist imagination.
My recent work has turned to British writing of the 1930s and 1940s, especially to the literature and culture of World War II. In an effort to expand the modernist canon, I've introduced a new book series at Edinburgh University Press called Midcentury Modern Writers, which publishes monographs on single authors, such as Barbara Hardy's 2016 study of the novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett, and on wider themes, such as Anna Cottrell's forthcoming study of London novels of the 1930s, which focuses on sociable spaces such as coffee-houses, pubs, and cinemas in the fiction and photography of this period. My own projected contribution to this series is a monograph on Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978), the novelist and poet who became a lesbian before it was fashionable and a Communist in the mid-1930s, when she travelled to Spain to support the republican cause in the Spanish Civil War. My larger project, Inside Out: Psychoanalysis and Fiction in World War II Britain and France, examines how wartime fiction and psychoanalysis call into question the relation between inside and outside, subject and object, self and other. In addition, I am co-editing (with Sîan White and Vicki Mahaffey) a collection of essays on Irish modernism, and a further collection on Freud and Modernism with Nicholas Royle.
"Everyday War: Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Townsend Warner in World War II." (On Woolf's Between the Acts and Warner's The Corner That Held Them). Forthcoming in Novel 2017.
"'Vaccies Go Home!' Evacuation, Psychoanalysis, and Fiction in World War II Britain." Oxford Literary Review 38.2 (2016) 240–261.
"A Technique of Unsettlement: Freud, Freudianism, and the Psychology of Modernism." In Vincent Sherry, ed. The Cambridge History of Modernism. Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp. 515-32.
"Psychoanalysis and Autobiography." In Adam Smyth, ed. A History of English Autobiography. Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp. 312-328.
"A Passage to the Lighthouse." In the Blackwell Companion to Virginia Woolf. Ed. Jessica Berman. Oxford: Blackwell, 2016, pp. 95-108.
"Death in the Air: Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Townsend Warner in World War II." (On Woolf's The Years and Warner's The Museum of Cheats). In Virginia Woolf Writing the World. Ed. Pamela L. Caughie and Diana L. Swanson. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2015, pp. 76-90.
D.Phil., Oxford University, 1982. Teaching at Chicago since 2010.


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Interfaith Human Rights and Activist Groups Write To US and UN for Safety of Afghan Sikhs
A number of interfaith human rights and activists groups have written to United States Embassy (Kabul) Chargé d'Affaires Ross Wilson and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representative in Afghanistan about persecution of Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan.
71 Years Old Sikh Attacked in Manteca (California); Sikhs Disturbed Over Back to Back Attacks
On August 6 in Manteca, California, Sahib Singh was the victim of an attack while taking his morning walk. The 71-year-old man was hit severely causing him to hit the cement street.
#WeAreSikhs: National Sikh Campaign to spread awareness on Sikhi in USA
A Sikh activist group called National Sikh Campaign (NSC) has reportedly launched a campaign to spread awareness about Sikhs and Sikhi in the United States of America (USA) amidst a spike in hate crimes against Sikhs in USA.
US Congress Urges Barack Obama To Visit Sikh Gurdwara Before End of Term
In a bipartisan letter to the White House, members of the American Sikh Congressional Caucus are urging President Obama to visit a Sikh Gurdwara before the end of his presidency.
National Sikh Campaign Raises $125,000 for Media Campaign in America
Sikhs of Salt Lake City came together to support National Sikh Campaign's media initiative to educate Americans about Sikhs and Sikhism.
National Sikh Campaign Hires Digital Agency to Develop Sikh Brand Online
The National Sikh Campaign (NSC) has taken a significant step towards one of the pillars of its larger awareness strategy, the creation of a website to act as an informational center for all those who seek to learn about the Sikh religion's tenets and principles. NSC was formed last year to launch a major media based awareness campaign about Sikhism and Sikh identity in America.
Chicago: National Sikh Campaign collects funds to support their media campaign for Sikh identity
The NSC team also visited the Sikh Religious Society of Palatine Gurdwara and Illinois Sikh Community Center on Sunday and addressed the community. The initiative was well-recieved by the community. This was the first major fundraising event of the National Sikh Campaign for this Sikh media campaign and close to $34,000 was collected.
Sikhs in America Report Revealing Sikh Media Strategies presented to US Congress
Sikh-Americans are proud Americans but have to live a paradoxical reality in which our faith teaches us values that are at the heart of the American ethic — gender equality, racial equality, and religious tolerance — however we are unfairly characterized as "un-American" due to a lack of understanding of our appearance and our practice of maintaining turbans and beards."
DSMGC announces contribution towards Campaign for Sikh Identity in USA
Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee has announced a contribution of $10,000 towards an awareness campaign to educate Americans about Sikhism and Sikh Identity. DSGMC president Manjit Singh GK and General Secretary Manjinder Singh Sirsa appeared with Dr. Rajwant Singh, Chairman of the Sikh Council on Religion and Education (SCORE) and Senior Advisor to the Washington based National Sikh Campaign, in New Delhi in a press meet and endorsed an American Sikh plan to reach out to millions of fellow Americans.
Most Americans know little about Sikhs and Sikhism, revels new study
Most Americans know little or nothing about Sikhs, a new survey shows. The survey, commissioned by a nonprofit seeking to build positive images of U.S. Sikhism, found that 60 percent of non-Asian-Americans said they had no knowledge of Sikhs. Eleven percent said they were close friends with a Sikh person, and 31 percent said they had never interacted with a Sikh.
How Americans view Sikhs? explains newly released report
Regularly subjected to discrimination and occasionally even the targets of hate crimes, Sikhs number between 200,000 and 500,000 in the U.S., according to AP. There are an estimated 25 million Sikhs worldwide, making their tradition one of the largest organized religions on the globe.
Major report on how Americans see Sikh religion & Sikhs to be released in Washington
A release by National Sikh Campaign (NSC) says that a major report on how Americans see Sikh religion and Sikhs is set to be released in Washington.
New study outlines American perceptions about Sikhs and Sikh religion
Media reports say that a new comprehensive study about Sikhs in America is set to be released later this month. As per information the study conducted by noted pollster Geoff Garin outlines how Americans perceive Sikh religion and Sikhs and what the Sikh community in America needs to convey to effectively build positive awareness in the United States.
US Gurdwaras Endorse the Campaign to change perception of Sikhs, claims National Sikh Campaign (NSC)
Washington D.C., August 20, 2014; Gurdwaras across the country convened in Washington D.C. this last weekend for an unprecedented grassroots meeting called by the newly formed National Sikh Campaign (NSC) to shape the Sikh image in America.

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Our Faculty of Education mission is centered upon fidelity to social justice and equity, while our diverse and dedicated team of faculty and staff share broad commitments to student success, to research excellence, and to community engagement.
Our faculty, staff, and students together aim to foster the conditions in which children, youth, and life-long learners in diverse educational contexts can thrive and contribute to a thriving planet. To ensure that all children and adult learners have a gateway to opportunity and to speak back to those voices who would conspire to fracture the planet with hatred, discrimination, and violence, it is our collective responsibility within a Faculty of Education to promote the development of educators who actively seek a better world, particularly for the most vulnerable, and toward the direction of justice, inclusivity, equity, and human rights.
To fulfill such hopeful promise, we are collectively inspired by a diversity of approaches, pedagogies, methodologies, and theoretical frameworks. We draw both strength and wisdom from the intersections and spaces between the sciences, the liberal arts, professional programs, and creative expression.
There are many points of convergence between the overarching priorities of this Faculty of Education and the University of Windsor's recent campaign to be recognized as a place of pride that promises to elevate human thought, creativity, and hope. I invite you to consider making a gift to the Faculty of Education to fund a student scholarship, establish an endowed chair, enhance learning technologies and facilities, foster graduate or undergraduate research, or to support the addition of additional and/or new space for the Faculty of Education. Please feel free to contact us for a tour of our faculty and to learn more about how your charitable donations will impact future educators.
Support for innovative curricular planning and development including: service learning co-ordination involving community outreach and field placement development; incubating innovative research and community-based initiatives that focus on the needs of local and global communities; broadening the base of experiential learning opportunities available to students; preparing students to participate, teach, and learn in a networked and digital world; enhancing curriculum pertaining to mental health, environmental sustainability, and Indigenous education.
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The 2015 5th International Conference on Bioscience, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics (ICBBB 2015) is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results in the fields of Bioscience, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics. ICBBB 2015 will bring together leading engineers and scientists in Bioscience, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics from around the world.
All ICBBB 2015 papers will be published in the International Journal of Bioscience, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics (IJBBB, ISSN: 2010-3638), and all papers will be included in the Engineering & Technology Digital Library, and indexed by EBSCO, WorldCat, Google Scholar, Cross ref., ProQuest and sent to be reviewed by EI Compendex and ISI Proceedings.


The Pianist (2002) 150 мин.
Saving Private Ryan (1998) 169 мин.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008) 90 мин.
Gone with the Wind (1939) 222 мин.
The Last Samurai (2003) 154 мин.
El laberinto del fauno (2006) 118 мин.
Dear John (2010) 108 мин.
The Hurt Locker (2008) 126 мин.
Full Metal Jacket (1987) 116 мин.
Black Hawk Down (2001) 144 мин.
Apocalypse Now (1979) 194 мин.
The Patriot (2000) 165 мин.
War Horse (2011) 146 мин.
The Book Thief (2013) 131 мин.
Dracula Untold (2014) 100 мин.
Rambo to Hell and Back (2007) 91 мин.
Men Who Stare at Goats, The (2009) 90 мин.
Jeanne d'Arc (1999) 160 мин.
Cold Mountain (2003) 148 мин.
The English Patient (1996) 155 мин.
Lone Survivor (2013) 121 мин.
Seven Years in Tibet (1997) 136 мин.
Enemy at the Gates (2000) 131 мин.
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) 138 мин.
G.I. Jane (1997) 125 мин.
Hot Shots! (1991) 84 мин.


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Arena Five: Christmas Book Basket and GIVEAWAY!
There's a wonderful idea floating around Pinterest to wrap a whole stack of Christmas books individually and open one every night as a kind of reading themed Advent. I think that's amazing and I might give it a go next year, but for now I thought I might share with you some of our favorite Christmas books in case you're looking for some good ones to read to your little ones in preparation for the holiday!
But at least I know he's interested!
Llama Llama Holiday Drama - Shopping, sales, ribbons galore! It's enough drama to send this little llama into a tizzy! It's so easy for kids (and adults) to get swept away by all the "stuff" of the holidays and this cute little book is great for trying to take away all that drama and remind us to slow down and enjoy Christmas!
Merry Christmas Mom and Dad - We love love love the Little Critter books in this house and this one is no exception. Little Critter wants so badly to do special things for his parents on Christmas, but they often end in disaster. Nevertheless, they appreciate his effort and this funny little story always gets my kids giggling!
Bear Stays up for Christmas - This series of books is awesome. From Bear Wants More to Bear's Loose Tooth, the simple rhyme schemes and darling stories make these instant favorites with my boys. This story of Bear trying to stay awake to enjoy Christmas with his friends is just so endearing. I love it!
Little Critter's The Night Before Christmas - Another Little Critter story! This one just takes the classic poem and puts it in the setting of a Critter. Adorable.
Olivia Helps with Christmas - My three year old picks this book pretty much every single night. If you haven't yet experienced the Olivia books, RUN (don't walk for goodness sake!) to your nearest used book store and grab one. They are wonderful! In this Christmas tale, Olivia burns the cookies, chops the top off the family Christmas tree, paints a self-portrait, and belts out the chorus to "Angels We Have Heard on High." Easily a top choice from our book basket!
You Can Do It Sam - A very sweet story about a little bear named Sam who bakes cakes to deliver to his neighbors for Christmas. A cute reminder to spread joy this holiday!
God Gave Us Christmas - When a bear cub wants to know what Christmas is all about, his mama takes him on an adventure to discover how God gave us Christmas in the form of a little baby boy born to save the world. I adore this book. It's a great story about the true meaning of Christmas!
The Polar Express - No collection of Christmas books is complete without this story of the little boy who travels to the North Pole and received a silver bell from Santa's sleigh. The illustrations are just gorgeous and my kids are enthralled by this tale.
Why Christmas Trees Aren't Perfect - I have to thank Erin at Sunny Side Up for introducing me to this book. It's so neat! It's the story of a little tree in the Queen's forest who tries so hard to grow up to be perfect so it can one day have the honor of being the royal Christmas Tree. Instead, it gives shelter to a rabbit, a warm spot for a wren, and food for a deer and its perfect form becomes flawed. But in the flaws, the Queen sees beauty of the love of God. A beautiful book.
Christmas Is Here - Another great choice for emphasizing the real meaning of Christmas. All the words in this book come right out of the King James Bible and it is the simplicity of this book that makes it so wonderful.
The Berenstain Bears and the Joy of Giving - Please tell me I'm not the only one who has loved this bear family since childhood! You can always count on Mama and Papa Bear to set their cubs straight when it comes to morals, behavior, and values. Love it.
A Pirate's Night Before Christmas - A funny spin on the familiar poem, this one can be a mouthful to read out loud, but any pirate-loving kids in your family will think this one is a real hoot!
These three are all books I discovered at a used book store last Christmas that have found a home in our collection.
A Charlie Brown Christmas - I really don't think any explanation is required for this classic.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - The story of the elf-dentist, outcast reindeer, and Yukon Cornelius. I will always love this!
Clifford's Christmas - What's not to love about a big red dog who saves Santa Claus?!
Books always make an amazing gift, so I'm going to hook up one lucky reader with a copy of The Polar Express!
This is a brand new, hardcover copy of this Christmas classic, complete with an audio CD of the one and only Liam Neeson reading it!
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Early Childhood Development and Education is a very important level of education as it forms the foundation for further learning. Due to this, the demand for this level of education has increased in recent years. In Kenya, the government has developed policies to guide the implementation process of ECDE programmes. However, the implementation process is quite dismal. Factors leading to this dismal implementation process have not been adequately investigated and understood hence hindering the development of Early Childhood Development and Education in the country. To this end, this study sought to determine the factors influencing teachers' implementation of Early Childhood Development and Education programmes in Lugari District. Specifically the study sought to find out the level of training among the ECDE teachers and to establish the educational resources available in Early Childhood Development and Education centres, The study used descriptive survey design. Fredrick Froebel theory was used for the study. Using a sample of 15%, stratified and proportionate sampling techniques, a total of 61 ECDE centers and 89 ECDE teachers, 61 primary school head teachers were selected from the three divisions of Lugari district. The study established that there was low level of training among the ECDE teachers in the district and that some of the crucial educational resources were lacking in ECDE centres. The study recommended that ECDE trained teachers should be absorbed by the Teachers Service Commission and that public advocacy to inform parents about the positive impacts of ECDE pedagogy should be conducted.
Keywords: Teachers, Implementation, Early Childhood Development Education, Programme, Lugari.


The Terrifics is such an oddball series and out of all of the New Age of Heroes, I adore it the most. It is wonky, out of this world, and never tries to take itself too seriously even when the fate of the multiverse seems to be in constant peril. It is a series that embraces the wonkiness of its sci-fi comic roots. I love the artwork, writing, and the bizarre premises.
Specifically, The Terrifics #11 focuses on the team fractured. After their adventure with the Strong family, each character has gone their separate ways. Mr. Terrifics has thrown himself into his research into the Dark Multiverse. Plastic Man, Phantom Girl, and Metamorpho have all gone home to mixed result feelings.
Lemire and Bogdanovic essentially tell four different tales in this issue. There are a couple of pages devoted to each of the characters as they attempt to acclimate to their new circumstances, while Mr. Terrifics gets a little more page time opening and closing the story. The two storytellers really excel in the smaller scale stories. Plastic Man going back to his ex in Gotham. Phantom Girl trying to make a go at it on Bgztl. Metamorpho adjusting to be just Rex Mason. It's a much needed shift of gears to quieter, more personal moments.
Yet even with the dour perspectives, Lemire and Bogdanovic capture just as many moments of levity in their artwork and dialog. The quips and visual gags are still very much on point and cement the series as a joy to read.
The Terrifics are a wonderful team of misfits that make each other better. It's very much a story that I feel is worth reading and investing in. It's fun and campy even after all of the different configurations of interpersonal dynamics and the set up at the end promises that Terrifics #12 will be equally enjoyable to watch unfold.
Reading The Terrifics? Check out BNP's other reviews here.


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TimeSplitters 2 has hyper-sensitive aiming on Xbox, but it's a blast once you've adjusted (Update: Patched)
Even if the controls aren't ideal, the backward compatible Xbox version is such a gift
[Update: If you were struggling to aim in the Xbox backward-compatible versions of TimeSplitters 2 and TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, the team has implemented an update for the controller sensitivity, according to Xbox's Jason Ronald. Granted, it's not what I would call "perfect," but it's a noticeable step up from before. In TS2, I was able to get a silver medal in Simian Shootout after a few attempts, so it has already made an impact.]
Just in case you didn't hear the recent good news, the Xbox team dropped one big final batch of backward-compatible Xbox games, and fans got not one but two TimeSplitters titles. You can fire up TimeSplitters 2 or TimeSplitters: Future Perfect on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S with a disc, or pay a super-reasonable $10 for the digital versions. It's not that easy to find BC titles on the Xbox storefront unless you already know what to look for, so I feel like the word is still getting out. There is one thing to note about the aiming, though.
The aiming in this backward-compatible Xbox version of TimeSplitters 2 is, in a word, hyper. And I don't just mean in comparison to contemporary shooters, which is a stark contrast on its own. It even stands out in relation to the Xbox/GameCube/PS2 originals. I'd say the aiming goes from zero to 100 in an instant, but it's actually more like zero to 1,000. Anything but the absolute slightest nudge of the right stick will whip your aim around.
In the chaos of split-screen multiplayer with bots and other players and wacky modes and modifiers, it's not the worst. With very patient stealth (and map/AI knowledge), the campaign can be bested. But in the higher-stakes Arcade League and Challenge Mode missions, which are just as much of a draw as anything else in TimeSplitters 2, oh boy.
Arcade levels like Can't Handle This — the one where you have to kill way too many sentient hands with Tommy Guns as a mobster — and Golem Guru — where you're dueling a Stone Golem who can shrug off rockets — were hard back in the day. Getting gold medals now, in 2021, feels like even more of an accomplishment. In some cases, like the Simian Shootout challenge with flying targets, I will absolutely settle for silver.
Granted, the aiming in TimeSplitters 2 is something you can potentially get used to with time, as I kinda sorta have. I've developed this weird new muscle memory where I rely much more on my character's movement than normal to try and get the reticule lined up. I'm still having a wonderful time, though. Nothing else scratches that TimeSplitters itch.
The Xbox BC version looks great and generally runs really well outside of some rare, short-lived hitching I've noticed in a couple of spots in TS2 — it could just be a bit better.
Other players have expressed their concerns, too. It's unclear if any additional work can be done by the backward compatibility team to tone down the way the aiming ramps up, or if we're stuck with it. For what it's worth, TimeSplitters: Future Perfect is easier to acclimate to, and it has more options, so if that's your preferred game, you're better off.
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William Penn Haisley (December 22, 1831 – 1906) was Florida's school superintendent. He served as principal of the South Florida Male and Female Institute in Tampa which transitioned quickly into a free school.

He was born into a Quaker family in Wayne County, Indiana and named for the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania. He studied at McKendree College in Lebanon, Illinois. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1861.

He served as Florida's superintendent of schools from 1877 until 1881. He was succeeded by Eleazer Foster.

See also
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1906 deaths
Harvard Law School alumni
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I'm a mum, career coach and professional speaker. I help adults to revitalise their careers and have a special interest in supporting return to work mums through an in-person and online workshop I developed called CareerSmart Mums. For the past 18 months I have been speaking on resilience and mental health after experiencing a significant personal crisis that led to me making big changes to my life. I've always loved helping others and feel blessed to be able to do this daily.
What is your goal/ what are you passionate about?
My goal is to inspire and improve people's lives through my speaking and careers work.
I'm passionate about helping others to know that it is possible to live a fulfilling life, reducing the prevalence of suicide in our community… and living in a world where parents are able to participate in meaningful paid work and be hands on at home.
Running my own business definitely presents challenges. I used to regularly have thoughts about giving it up but the further I've got into it the more confident I have become that I'm on the right path. I think that the Louise Hay affirmation I started saying a lot at the end of last year, "I let go of fear and doubt and life becomes easy for me", helped to eliminate the thoughts of giving up and has allowed me to really step up in my business.
I'm often challenged by the fact that I love my work and that there always seems so much to do. I generally work from home and will often pop down to the office at night to quickly post something on social media and re-emerge hours later.
Keeping all my plates spinning in a life where I have multiple roles and varied interests can also be challenging and I'm so grateful to be someone who has a lot of energy.
What are the most rewarding things and what achievement/goal are you most proud of achieving to date?
Parenting has definitely been one of my most rewarding (and challenging) experiences to date. I was almost 42 when I naturally conceived our, now eight year old son, Matthew. I think that we learn as much from him as he does from us (actually probably the former because I'm not sure how much he listens to us!).
I am actually proud of what I've managed to do in my business and of creating the online version of CareerSmart Mums because it felt like one of the hardest things I've done but I persevered and am happy with the outcome.
Finally, I'm am proud of having been able to transform the darkest time in my life into a positive. In 2012 I attempted suicide by jumping off Brisbane's Story Bridge. After waking in the hospital I decided that I must be meant to be here. A couple of years later I realised I hadn't dealt with what caused it, even though I knew I'd never go there again. I consciously embarked on a quest to find what I needed to improve my life and was able to successfully move from floundering to flourishing. I now share this story to help others to know that it is possible to change our thoughts and to create the life we want.
I think a big part of balance for me is having a routine. I'm strong on self-care. I meditate each morning, cycle three times per week, cycle with Matthew after school one day each week and generally don't work on weekends. I also ask for help when I need it, whether it's asking my partner to pick up some of the home activities or someone to look after Matthew. He actually sleeps at grandma's on Thursday nights so that I can cycle at 5.30am the next morning. The balance isn't always perfect but good communication and making sure I look after myself really help.
Julia Baker, aka the Snake Boss, greatly inspired me a few years ago when she shared her story of transforming herself from a divorced, overweight, depressed mother of two to becoming the star Animal Planet's highest rating TV show. Her story, and a subsequent conversation with a friend who had decided to stop the unhelpful thoughts that had become her stream of consciousness, gave me the hope that life could be different. Lisa Nichols, and other US speakers, also inspire in my speaking.
What is inspiring you at the moment (reading/ watching/learning)?
I love audio books and am currently listening to the "NLP: Essential Guide to Neurolinguistic Programming". I attribute lots of the positive things that I have introduced into my life to NLP. Other books include Mel Robbins "5 Second Rule and Rebecca Campbell's "Light is the New Black".
If you're not already there, please love and accept yourself for who you are. You are amazing and have wonderful gifts to offer the world. Don't ever compare yourself to others, only compare yourself to yesterday's you. Listen to and trust your intuition. Live your biggest life, as far as we know we've just got this one crack at it. As George Eliot said "It's never too late to be who you might have been". Find time working out what lights you up and do lots of it.
Growing my business, inspiring more people through my work, a teaching memoir that people can take home with them, living on the Sunshine Coast and travel. I'd love to attend a Lisa Nichols workshop one day and to meet Anh Do.
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"Dryden South" Proposed for Collegetown
Being that is a completely new project, I decided that rather than include this as an update in the previous planning board entry, I'd give it's own blog post.
The site in question is 205/207 Dryden – what my Cornell contemporaries know as the old Kraftee's building, and what the newest graduates know as the new Kraftee's building. Kraftee's is one of the local private college department stores, and opened its second location in Ithaca in December 2002 (the first store opened in Herkimer in 1989, moved to Oswego in 1990, and is still open today). Owner Pat Kraft bought 205 Dryden in 2004, and in January 2008, moved its store to the old convenience store next door (325 College Avenue, now the home of PopShop). In fall 2011, Kraftee's moved back into the Dryden Avenue space after 325 College was sold to John Novarr, and he decided to not renew Kraft's lease.
This I find very interesting. There are 5 parcels on the south side of the 200 block of Dryden Road in Collegetown; 4 are owned by Novarr's company. Kraftee's was the fifth. According to the rumor mill, Novarr's Dry-Lin LLC may have made an offer to buy the property from Kraft; had they succeeded, they would have had the opportunity to consolidate their parcels and control an entire block in the heart of Collegetown, and build a potentially massive project. But, for whatever reason, no deal was made.
Turning back to the building proposed, what we have is a mixed-use structure designed by local firm Sharma Architects, 6 stories tall. "Dryden South", as the building is called, would have about 2400 sq ft of retail space on the first floor, and the upper five floors would have 10 units of student apartments with a total of 40 bedrooms. The sketch plan only consists of the page below, but the pdf is here.
To be honest, the design is par for the course for Jagat Sharma et al., lots of brick with a little visual interest on the street-facing side. Not unlike any of the dozens of midrises they've thrown up in the NYC boroughs over the past few years. Personally, I despise the prison-slit windows proposed for the west facade, but it's also an acknowledgement that the developer fully expects Novarr to propose something of his own for that corner in due course. We'll see how this evolves as it moves forward to the planning board.
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2013 Census Estimates, Part II: Everybody Shares the Wealth
For the data geeks out there…the 2013 census estimates. A few highlights:
No city, village or town in Tompkins County is estimated to have lost population from 2012-2013, or 2010-2013.
Ithaca city had an estimated gain of +180 since 2012. The current estimated population is 30,515, 1.67% higher than the 2010 census value of 30,014.
Ithaca city is growing faster than Ithaca town, but the pace is uneven. Ithaca town was thought to have lost population from 2010-2011, but gained a greater percentage than Ithaca city this past year.
The village of Dryden exploded 8.7% in the past year alone, thanks to the opening of Poet's Landing. For the decade so far, it's increased 10.16% to 2,082.
More realistically, the second fastest grower is the town of Danby, from 3329 to 3462, or 4% in three years. Decadal extrapolation estimates 13.32% over the period (pop. ~3772 in 2020)
The slowest growing community is Freeville, with 0.77% growth from 2010-2013 (520 to 524). Second slowest is the town of Caroline at 0.94% (3282 to 3313). The county average is 2.02% for 2010-2013.
Entity 2010 REAL / 2010 EST / 2011 EST / 2012 EST / 2013 EST / GAIN, 2010-2013 / DECADAL EXTRAP.
Tompkins County New York 101564 101588 101847 102713 103617 2053 2.02% 6.74%
Cayuga Heights village New York 3729 3729 3733 3756 3776 47 1.26% 4.20%
Dryden village New York 1890 1891 1897 1916 2082 192 10.16% 33.86%
Freeville village New York 520 520 520 523 524 4 0.77% 2.56%
Groton village New York 2363 2369 2371 2389 2408 45 1.90% 6.35%
Ithaca city New York 30014 30014 30167 30335 30515 501 1.67% 5.56%
Lansing village New York 3529 3529 3555 3597 3616 87 2.47% 8.22%
Trumansburg village New York 1797 1797 1809 1819 1832 35 1.95% 6.49%
Balance of Tompkins County New York 57722 57739 57795 58378 58864 1142 1.98% 6.59%
Caroline town New York 3282 3288 3280 3302 3313 31 0.94% 3.15%
Danby town New York 3329 3330 3364 3424 3462 133 4.00% 13.32%
Dryden town New York 14435 14436 14477 14617 14852 417 2.89% 9.63%
Balance of Dryden town New York 12025 12025 12060 12178 12246 221 1.84% 6.13%
Enfield town New York 3512 3512 3534 3572 3586 74 2.11% 7.02%
Groton town New York 5950 5973 5985 6027 6091 141 2.37% 7.90%
Balance of Groton town New York 3587 3604 3614 3638 3683 96 2.68% 8.92%
Ithaca town New York 19930 19930 19836 19958 20132 202 1.01% 3.38%
Balance of Ithaca town New York 16201 16201 16103 16202 16356 155 0.96% 3.19%
Lansing town New York 11033 11027 11082 11256 11362 329 2.98% 9.94%
Balance of Lansing town New York 7504 7498 7527 7659 7746 242 3.22% 10.75%
Newfield town New York 5179 5178 5193 5235 5263 84 1.62% 5.41%
Ulysses town New York 4900 4900 4929 4987 5041 141 2.88% 9.59%
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Suddenly There's A Lot of News At Once
Latest planning board agenda is online and there's a lot — and I mean a lot — that will be discussed. I'm going to be updating this post as more information comes online, so this first draft is a sort of "here's what we know" going into the meeting.
A. No surprise, the Ridgewood student housing project (the address has been updated from 1 Ridgewood to 7 Ridgewood) is up for discussion once again. The project needs a "certificate of appropriateness" from the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Council (ILPC) since it's in the Cornell Heights historic neighborhood, and things are not looking all that auspicious, given the recent report from the Ithaca Journal. The planning board would likely give approval with stipulations if the ILPC approves the plan, but that's a very big "if" at this point.
B. The downtown Ithaca Marriott. This site is the triangular parking lot next to the Commons at Aurora Street, and has been covered in detail both here and at IB. The history here goes back five years, back when it was going to be called the "Hotel Ithaca" (now the name for the former Holiday Inn). This one has been stalled since the fall due to financing issues, but that has been taken care of in the past couple of weeks and they want to start construction ASAP. They have several changes that need to be reviewed since they have completed "value engineering" (a phrase I fear, since it's the pretty way to see they cut back on material costs and design features), so we'll see what this will look like. The current proposal's rendering, at 10 floors and about 160 rooms, is below.
C. Likewise, the Stone Quarry project was also approved a while back in the fall of 2012, but only now managed to secure funding. Here's the previous discussion here, and here's details from IB. The project, slated for a parcel on Spencer Road where Ithaca Taxi Dispatch keeps a parking lot, will bring 35 units of INHS-run affordable housing. This one is also up for re-approval for value engineering reasons, and looks to start construction early this fall.
D. 140 College aka the John Snaith House addition, discussed earlier this week here.
E. "205 Dryden Road, Student Housing, Jagat Sharma – Sketch Plan" — Now here's something new. 205 Dryden is the Kraftee's Building. Jagat Sharma is a prolific local architecture firm, responsible for many of the larger apartment buildings in Collegetown. I can't seem to find the owner from the tax records, which indicate the current owner has been the owner since 2004. Jagat Sharma tends to be a favorite architect for Ithaca Renting/Jason Fane, and Lambrou Real Estate, but neither of them seem to own the parcel from what I can tell (it's possible one of them does, but the upstairs units are not rented). Novarr-Mackesey owns three parcels next door, but I don't see anything on their website either. Regardless, this falls in a Collegetown MU-2 zone, 4-6 stories, and 45-80′ in height. Whatever is proposed here is going to be pretty big, comparable to Josh Lower's Collegetown Crossing project.
Edit: Jason at IB tells me it's owned by Pat Kraft, the guy that runs Kraftee's.
F. Speaking of which, 307 College, aka Collegetown Crossing, has a new sketch up for review as well. With the new zoning guidelines, the current version isn't doable because it impedes on the lot to its east. So this version will have a 9% smaller footprint at least, but parking will no longer be an issue. For the record, here's the site, and the old design.
G. "Downtown Hampton Inn Hotel, Scott Whitham – Sketch Plan" – Another re-do of sorts. This one appeared in its original form in December 2012. The original proposal, proposed by Neil Patel (his family members are the ones developing the hotels off 13) was for a 6 story, 92-room, $16 million hotel that would have demolished the Carey Building, and the original design was by Jagat Sharma. Scott Whitham is another local architect, so given the revised space constraints and the new architect-of-record, the design of this will be something completely different. Although hopefully it doesn't involve tearing down buildings the developer doesn't own.
H. 314-320 E. State Street, the Carey Building addition – discussed earlier this week here.
In sum, there's a lot of stuff going on all at once. I'll update as it all plays out, and documents and renders become available.
UPDATE 1: The new design of the Stone Quarry apartments:
Due to concerns with how the soil will settle on site, the walkways and elevations of the buildings have been altered. Each townhouse now steps 8 inches going north to south, which makes the middle ones look a little misshapen. The soil issue also forced a re-do of the ends of the apartment building, since it couldn't be graded as originally planned. On the cost-cutting end, balconies have been replaced with windows, the south facade of the apartment building was tweaked, some of the trim has been removed or down-valued on the Spencer Road side of the townhomes, and a few more windows punched in on the sides of the townhome end units. there's a few tweaks to the site plan as well, which can be found at the link above.
UPDATE 2: Here's the proposed Hampton Inn, details here. The new hotel would be built on the parking lot behind the Carey Building. The proposal calls for six floors, 120 rooms, and 2,000 sq ft of retail/restaurant space, with only about 9 parking spaces on site. The entranceway would be via a driveway between the Carey Building and the Eagles Buildling, which I imagine being a bit of a logisitical nightmare at the moment, given that the Carey Building has its own renovations underway and additions planned.
UPDATE 3: Up next, revisions to 307 College Avenue, Josh Lower's Collegetown Crossing project. Nothing fundamentally different here, but the design has definitely been tweaked. Full details here. The revision reduced the number of apartments to 43, with 98 bedrooms (previous was 103). There would be five retail spaces on the ground level of the six-story, 63'4″ structure. The size and scale of this revision fit comfortably within the rules of the new Collegetown MU-2 zoning of the parcel.
UPDATE 4 (6/5/14): The updated design of the Marriott has been released, and will have its own special planning board meeting on June 10th. Apart from updated Marriott signage and some materials tweaks, this one has virtually the same design as the original, which has me breathing a sigh of relief. Perhaps this one will start construction in July after all.
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Mixing Old With New
After something of a dry spell, a couple of projects are due to come forward in the next few weeks, both involving similar concepts – additions to existing structures.
First, 140 College Avenue. Site plan here, details of the revision here and here. This actually isn't the first time this one has come up to bat, having made its rounds in the news a little over three years ago (token disclaimer: I wasn't a fan of it then, and my mind hasn't changed). 140 College, better known in historic circles as the John Snaith House, has been targeted for a one-unit, 12 bedroom, 3,800 sq ft addition by its owners, the Po Family Realty. The addition, by local architect Jason Demarest, would be built on the south side of the building, separated by a glass partition. The Po family has already run the gauntlet with the planning board, since the Snaith House is a local landmark. Their plan was approved, but given the zoning, it required 6 spaces, for a total of 12 parking spaces for the whole building. Apparently, this made the project less workable, and it's been on hold since. The developer is using the recent changes to Collegetown zoning as an impetus to change the terms of the project's approval, reducing the number of parking spaces for the building to a total of 4. The project as proposed eliminates 2 of the 6 parking spaces on site, so only 4 would be left. Originally, 8 spaces had been secured off-site (4 on site + 8 off site = 12), but the lease on those will expire before this project is complete, as construction is tentatively slated to start late next month, and they are unable to renew those leases. Rather than renting new off-site spaces, the developer just wants to keep the total at 4. In exchange, they will provide bike racks, and all tenants membership in Ithaca Carshare. Before the zoning change, this would have been a tough sell, but it stands a good chance of approval going forward.
Project number two, on the other hand, is new to the boards. This one targets the Carey Building, which has been in the news quite a bit as of late as the new Ithaca/Cornell/IC/TC3 business incubator is being built on the second floor, set to open this summer (more details on the renovation process can be found over at Ithaca Builds). A third floor addition has been in the works, projected for a 2015 completion. Well, there has also been discussion of a little more expansion beyond that, and that became clear with this document sent to the city this week. Local developer Travis-Hyde Properties proposes an additional 3,600 sq ft of office space on the third floor, and two more floors above that with 14 micro-apartments. This is within current zoning and no variance will be needed. Micro-apartments are a rather new phenomenon, but have significant potential in urbanized areas, especially cities like Ithaca where their lower square footage (think 400-500 sq ft) permits a lower monthly rent, which can hopefully make a small dent in the affordable housing issue the region is struggling with.
There's no official render, but we have a massing study that gives a pretty good idea of the proportions of the vertical addition:
Given that Travis-Hyde looks to be partnering with local firm John Snyder Architects on this one, expect something modern, with generous amounts of glass. I generally am not a fan of building additions, but I'll reserve judgement until actual renders come out for this one. At the very least, this will be better than that hotel proposal from the Patel family a couple years ago that proposed tearing the Carey Building down. the only take-away from that stale proposal is that if you want to make enemies in the business community, go ahead and propose projects for land you don't own, and the owners have no intention of selling.
Tags: collegetown, construction (planned), Cornell, ithaca, news
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Craigslist, the Wild West of Ithaca's Rental Market
All of the apartments I have ever lived in, I have found through Craigslist. I've explored the markets in Ithaca, Albany and the New York City area, and for the most part, I'd say the results were positive.
Sometimes, when I glance at Ithaca development projects, I look at the Ithaca branch of Craigslist postings. Where we once had those cute little printed apartment guides and phone books, now we have a website that shares housing ads with space occupied with postings for old CRT TV stands, scuzzy photos of human anatomy, and the inevitably creepy missed connections. Some of Ithaca and Tompkins County's smaller projects, the token single-families, duplexs and triplexes that are the bread and butter of the community, are hardly noted in more prominent publications, and barely mentioned in bureaucratic paperwork. It's easier to find renderings and so forth through Craigslist (I'm lazy, and just use the keyword "new", which seems to catch a lot of them).
With that acknowledgement of utility, I still roll my eyes at some of the ads. There's no real policing of the ads beyond extreme instances, so looking for housing becomes a case of caveat empetor. Some don't need policing so much as a proofreader, being a schoolteacher's nightmare of horrific spelling and grammar (especially the dreaded ALL CAPS), but there's a few out there that are just an outright crock. But someone new to the Ithaca market won't know that.
To avoid confrontation, I'm not going to link to the culprits. But they're easy enough to find.
I'll use my keyword for example: new. There's one local rental agency that uses the phrase "brand new" to describe a townhouse complex built in 2003. According to them, by care-worn boat of a car is "brand new" (and worth about two months of their rent), as are the Iraq War and rapper 50 Cent's first album.
Another example – describing any house as being "in Ithaca" when it's actually in Newfield, Dryden or Caroline. The most egregious offenders aren't even in Tompkins County. On a related note, advertising a house on Coddington Road as "urban living" won't fool anyone so long as they make an effort to visit the place.
Then we have adjective abuse, which isn't a new thing but it merits every ounce of scorn it receives. Luxurious is the biggest offender, but affordable is rapidly catching up to it (resulting in the facepalm-worthy phrase "affordable luxury"). We also have "contemporary", "upscale", and even "trendy" pokes its ugly head every now and then.
While writing this entry up, I found something especially cringe-worthy, at least for me. Two photos of an apartment being advertised, which I have separated from their post out of politeness. Unless someone happened to rent the same unit and use the same shower curtain, that photo is from when I lived there during 2008-2010. The bedroom photo was my room. In fact, the desk on the left could very well be the exact same one from which I wrote the first post for this blog. Feel free to hate the bedroom color, I shared the room and we were trying to make each room its own color; this one had the soap opera name "Dylan Verdant". I'm kinda surprised the room is still that color, since that was one of the reasons we left that apartment with our security deposit much, much lighter than when we moved in (the day we learned to have written and signed consent; on the bright side, I've always received my full deposit back ever since).
The last thing I've learned from Craigslist is that some folks make a veritable mint on graduation weekend. Looking there now, I see 2 nights in a home for $850, a three-night stay in a Cayuga Heights home for $1800 (for 2015, it's already rented for 2014), and a few places going for more reasonable values of $150-200 per night. Now that's what I call a vacation fund.
Tags: ithaca, ranting, residential life, tompkins county
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News Tidbits 5/6/14: INHS Wants "Woonerfs"
I have to be honest, up to last night, I had no freaking clue what a woonerf was. It sounds like a children's made-up word (ex. thingamigjig or doohickey; my brother used "pedewa"). But apparently, it's a legit urban planning concept. Woonerf is Dutch for "living yard", and is a type of "living street" where equal priority is given to cars, bicyclists, and pedestrians (the speed limit is no more than about 10-12 mph). They've seen substantial implementation in Western Europe since their introduction in the 1970s. The more I read about them, the more I get the impression that it's a curious blend of a thoroughfare and a courtyard, or Ithaca Commons with vehicle traffic.
Image Courtesy of localmile.org
I'm not inclined to look up new words without a purpose, and the reason this time around comes courtesy of the planning board of the town of Ithaca, with the following project up for review at the meeting on May 20th:
Consideration of a sketch plan for the proposed Greenways project located off Sunnyhill Lane and Strawberry Hill Road, Town of Ithaca, Tax Parcel No.'s 60-1-34.2 and 60.1-1-46.22, Medium Density Residential (MDR) and Multiple Residence Zones (MR). The proposal involves the development of 46 townhouse units west of Eastwood Commons, fronting woonerf-style roads that will connect Sunnyhill Lane and Strawberry Hill Road.The project will also include new parking areas, open space, recreation areas, trails, walkways, landscaping, outdoor lighting, and stormwater facilities. Cornell University, Owner; Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, Applicant; Peter Trowbridge, Trowbridge Wolf Michaels Landscape Architects, Agent.
Regular readers will recognize the name Greenways because I've latched onto this project and followed it with interest since first proposed about 18 months ago (one could argue I've beaten a dead horse here). The project was originally proposed with 67 units, but then dropped to 46 by the time updated specs were submitted in February. The site is still the same, seeking to use woonerfs to connect Sunnyhill Drive and Strawberry Hill Circle. Note that google is not correct here, the street labels are all botched up. An accurate map with the parcels outlined (copied from the county tax map) is included in the lede for this post. Given a preferred completion in October 2015, and that this project consists of 46 units of townhouse-style housing, it makes sense that it would be seeking planning board approvals now.
Image property of Greenways at Eastwood Commons
So make way for the woonerfs, I suppose.
EDIT 5/15: Now we have renders and site plans. It looks like the project will be built in three phases, and access to "Greenways Lane" will be primarily through Strawberry Hill Toad and Sunnyhill Lane. The "woonerfs" seem rather gimmicky in this context.
Tags: construction (planned), greenways, inhs, ithaca, news, residential life, tompkins county
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Cornell's Presidential Credentials
Making its rounds in the news over the past couple of months, Cornell's president, David Skorton, is leaving the gorges of Ithaca to be the secretary (head) of the Smithsonian down in Washington D.C. The departure of Skorton in June 2015 will give him a tenure of about nine years, which as Cornell presidents go, is about average. Considering how many college presidents view their institutions as stepping stones, trying to get out of a place as soon as they have a year under their belt and another line on the resume (Excelsior, I suppose), Cornell's not doing all that badly in this respect. Of course, this also opens up the task of trying to find Skorton's successor, a task that is by no means an easy one.
In a meeting about what to look for in the next president, an audience member expressed that they would be very disappointed if all the candidates were white men. I hope the candidates aren't all old white dudes, but I suspect this is mostly going to be a battle of credentials. In that vein, I decided to take a look at the credentials of Cornell's past president, prior to their hire.
Andrew Dickson White – Hard to use here because he co-founded Cornell, so the circumstances aren't comparable to other presidents. A.D. White's resume prior to Cornell includes a B.A. and an M.A. from Yale, a stint working as a translator for the U.S. ambassador to Russia, a professorship at U. Michigan, and at the time of Cornell's founding, a state senator out of Syracuse. Six years after his term at Cornell was voluntarily concluded in 1885, he had been asked to serve as the first president of Stanford University, but declined.
Charles Kendall Adams – Assistant professor at Michigan, 1863-1867, then full professor from 1867-1885. He was a former student and close colleague of A.D. White. Adams's time at Cornell was a tumultuous and unhappy one, and he resigned due to conflicts with the Board of Trustees in 1892, after only seven years of service. His nine years that followed at U. Wisconsin would be much more amicable.
Jacob Gould Schurman – Professor, Acadia College (Canada), 1880-1882; Professor, Dalhousie College, 1882-1886; Professor, Cornell University, 1886-1892. Dean of the Sage School of Philosophy, 1891-1892. Schurman had the longest tenure of any president, at 28 years (1892-1920).
Livingston Farrand – M.D., Columbia, 1891. Doctor of Laws (LL.D.), Cambridge and Berlin, 1893. Adjunct professor of psychology, Columbia, member of multiple anthropological expeditions to the Pacific Northwest. Full professor of anthropology at Columbia, 1903-1914. President of U.Colorado, 1914-1919. Treasurer of the American Public Health Association (1912-1914), Executive Secretary for a tuberculosis prevention group (1905), Director in France for the International Health Board, 1917-1919. Chairman of the American Red Cross. Cornell president, 1921-1937; he died in Manhattan two years later.
Edmund Ezra Day – Degrees in economics, BA and MA from Dartmouth, PhD from Harvard. From 1923, professor at U. Michigan, where he would advance to become first dean of their business school, and dean of the university. President of Cornell 1937-1949. He passed away shortly after his resignation. the interim president, provost Cornelis de Kiewiet, would act as president for two years before a successor was approved. He would leave that same year to serve out a decade as president of the Univ. of Rochester.
Deane Malott – B.A. in economics from U. Kansas and a Harvard M.B.A. Assistant Dean/Assistant Professor at Harvard, 1923-1929. Vice President, Hawaiian Pineapple Company (now Dole), 1929-1934. Professor, Harvard, 1934-1939. Chancellor, U. Kansas, 1939-1951. Sat on numerous corporate boards. Deane Malott served 12 years at Cornell, 1951-1963, before he retired. Malott was noted as an excellent fund-raiser, and although personally a social conservative, he had a liberal approach to Cornell's intellectual pursuits.
James Perkins – Degrees in political science from Swarthmore (BA) and Princeton (PhD). Professor, Princeton, 1937-1941. Administrator, United States Office of Price Administration and the Foreign Economic Administration, 1941-1945. Vice president, Swarthmore, 1945-1950. Vice President, Carnegie Corporation (an educational foundation), 1950-1963. Perkins served as president for six years, 1963-1969, before stepping down in the aftermath of the Willard Straight takeover. Afterwards, he served as the chairman and CEO of the International Council for Educational Development for 20 years.
Dale Corson – BA (Emporia College), MA (U. Kansas), PhD (Physics, U.C. Berkeley, 1938). Co-discoverer of the element astatine. Helped to develop radar during WWII. Associate professor of physics, Cornell, 1947-1956. Full professor, 1956. Dean of the Engineering School, 1959-1963. Provost of Cornell, 1963-1969. Appointed president after Perkins's resignation, Corson was considered a mild-mannered scientist who provided stability to the university through the 1970s. After eight years, Corson resigned as president in 1977, becoming Chancellor and then appointed president emeritus.
Frank H.T. Rhodes – U. Birmingham (UK), BA,MA, PhD (Geology, 1951). Fulbright Scholar, U. Illinois, 1950-1951. Professor of geology, U. Durham (UK), 1951-1954. Assistant professor, U. Illinois, 1954-1955. Associate Professor, U. Illinois, 1955-1956. Geology. Dept head, U. Wales-Swansea (UK), 1956-1967. Dean of science, U. Wales-Swansea, 1967-1968. Visiting research scholar, Ohio State, 1965-66. Professor, U. Michigan, 1968-1971. Dean, College of Literature, Science and the Arts at U. Michigan, 1971-1974. Vice president of academic affairs, U. Michigan, 1974-1977. Frank Rhodes served as Cornell president from 1977-1995. He is a professor emeritus of the geology department and still lives in Ithaca.
Hunter R. Rawlings III – B.A. (Classics, Haverford College, 1966), PhD (Classics, Princeton, 1970). Associate Professor, U. Colorado-Boulder, 1970-1980. Dean of classics dept., U. Colorado-Boulder, 1978-1980. Recipient of U. Colorado teaching excellence award, 1979. Full professor, U. Colorado, 1980-1988. Associate vice chancellor, 1980-1984. President, U. Iowa, 1988-1995. Rawlings served as president of Cornell from 1995 to 2003, and later as the interim president between Lehman and Skorton. Rawlings was known as a strong fundraiser, but was criticized for his hands-off approach to the university. He continues a professor at Cornell, and is also the president of the American Association of Universities.
Jeffrey Lehman – the only one with Cornell in his pedigree prior to his presidency. BA, Cornell (mathematics, 1977). J.D. and an M.P.P. (Master of Public Policy), U. Michigan, 1981. Law clerk to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens (1982-83), Lawyer, Caplin & Drysdale, 1983-1987, Assistant law professor, U. Michigan, 1987-1992, Professor of law/law and public policy, 1992-2003, Dean of U. Michigan law school, 1994-2003. Lehman served only two years as Cornell president before suddenly stepping down due to disagreements with the trustees; what specifically caused the rift remains a subject of debate. He continued as a Cornell law professor until 2012, and is now the vice chancellor of NYU Shanghai.
David Skorton – BS (Psychology, Northwestern, 1970), M.D. (Northwestern, 1974). Medical residency in cardiology, UCLA. Instructor, U. Iowa, 1980. Assistant Professor in internal medicine, U. Iowa, 1981. Assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering, U. Iowa, 1982. Vice president of research, U. Iowa, 1992. Vice president for research and external relations, U. Iowa, 2002. Chancellor, U. Iowa, 2003-2006.
So if the latest presidents are any indicator, they're going to have a lot of education, a lot of titles on their resume, and more likely than not, hail from a large state school. Given our trend for Iowans, has anyone contacted Sally Mason yet?
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Symphony No. 3 in E Minor, Op. 90, "Ships"
Ignace Jan Paderewski
Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 17: II. Romanze. Andante
Claire Huangci, piano
Shi-Yeon Sung, conductor
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Divertissement for Shrove Tuesday 1805: Contredanza
Reinhard Goebel, conductor
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Armida, Op. 115: Overture
Pietari Inkinen, conductor
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Sjöfartsskydd: En studie av tre länders maritima säkerhet
Kindgren, Jonas
In the globalised world, nations and the world's trade rely on transportation of goods and people on the oceans. Recent developments in military theory and warfare in conjunction with the globalised world have changed the maritime domain profoundly. New models for protection of shipping need to be developed and implemented to mitigate this change.
The scope of this study was to see if any conclusions on organisation could be drawn based on theoretical organisational models. Based on the work of Max Weber, Henry Mintzberg and J.D Thompson three countries were studied in a comparative inductive method with hypotheses. These hypotheses were then tested on NATO:s organisation for protection of shipping, NCAGS for validation.
This study shows that the compared nations have different organisations and view of the maritime domain but also what criteria that needs to be met in order to safeguard the nation's essential shipping. The comparison also shows that the three nations on its own does not have the ability to fully protect its shipping, it shows that a separate stand alone, tailor-made organisation that includes as many different organisations as possible, might be the best option. In that organisation the exchange of both information and intelligence is vital to success but also a short line of command. The parties in that organisation need to be private companies, national authorities and military.
Maritim säkerhet, förändrad maritim domän, Sjöfartsskydd, vidgade säkerhetsbegreppet, organisationsteori
Krigsvetenskap, självständigt arbete (Förberedande kurs inför Högre stabsofficersutbildning (HSU))
Ries, Thomas, Lektor
Swedish Defence University, Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership (ISSL).
Åselius, Gunnar, Professor
Swedish Defence University, Department of Military Studies.
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Q: If $a_n$ is a sequence such that the sequence $a_{n+2}$ is convergent, does this mean that $a_n$ must also be convergent? If $a_n$ is a sequence such that the sequence $a_{n+2}$ is convergent, does this mean that $a_n$ must also be convergent?
Suppose $a_n$ is a sequence such that the sequence $a_{2n}$ is convergent. Must $a_n$ also be convergent?

I do not know how to even approach these two questions, but I am guessing that it might have something to do with monotone convergence theorem since that particular theorem was simply "given" to me to help me prove that some series are convergent and that their limits exist.
Any help and/or guidance would be much appreciated.

A: If $a_n$ is convergent then for any fixed $k$, so it $a_{n+k}$. This is
fairly straightforward to verify from the definition.
For the other, take the sequence
$a_1=1, a_2 = 0, a_3 = 3, a_4 = 0, a_5 = 5, a_6 = 0, ....$.
then $a_{2n} = 0 \to 0$ but clearly the sequence does not converge.

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Reader Rant
Is Rick Santorum a real alternative to Mitt Romney?
By DOUG THOMPSON
Featured, News, Politics and More
New GOP frontrunner Rick Santorum (AFP Photo/Chip Somodevilla)
For months, right-wing Republicans have searched for a lasting"alternative" to frontrunner Mitt Romney.
Flash-in-the-pan pretenders came and went: Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, et. al. For a while it looked like former speaker of the house Newt Gingrich would seize the mantle but that prospect scared the hell out of most Republicans and he has faded, once again, into political obscurity.
Now the part of the elephant appears to have a new — perhaps lasting — alternative: Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, an extreme right-winger that scares even some of the party's most fervent conservatives.
In most national polls, Santorum is the new frontrunner. His positive ratings now reach as high as 67 percent among Republicans — ahead of Romney.
Will it last? Some GOP strategists tell Capitol Hill Blue it could, more so from weariness from voters who want somebody — anybody — but Romney.
"There is a weariness in the ranks," says GOP strategist Ron Alderman. "What you see out there is a feeling that 'hey, we could do a lot worse than Santorum.'"
Santroum's surge may also stem from President Barack Obama's own surge in popularity with voters. The newest polls show Obama beating any of the four remaining GOP contenders in head-to-head match ups and the President's job approval hitting 50 percent for the first time in three years.
"The four remaining Republican candidates may be running for the right to be a sacrificial lamb to Obama," Alderman says.
Santorum's fundraising has surged since he three-primary win last week but his campaign cash still still lags far behind Romney, who is set to spend at least $1.2 million in TV ads in the upcoming Michigan primary where polls show Santorum leading.
But while a majority of Republicans now appear to prefer Santorum over Romney, that support is weak compared to the 76 percent level of support eventual GOP nominee John McCain enjoyed at the same point in 2008.
With a volatile electorate, anything can — and probably will — happen between now and the GOP convention this summer and the election in November.
But — at the moment at least — Republicans appear to finally have a viable alternative to Mitt Romney.
Whether or not they can live with that alternative is still unknown.
7 thoughts on "Is Rick Santorum a real alternative to Mitt Romney?"
Sandy Price
Thank you Griff. I think we found the perfect man!
I guess what the Republicans really need is a virtually unknown black smooth-talking, presidential-looking one-term congressman cum community organizer in order to win this year.
Woody, does his brand of extremism appeal to you? I'm shocked that so many Republicans want him in the White House.
I'm hoping that Halperin and Heilmann are going to write up this election as they did at the end of the Bush 43 term.
I sometimes get the impression that all the previous voters ran away and a new bunch arrives with new reasons for their actions.
This last campaign is based on having the government get involved in our personal choices. If your wife thought she might be pregnant would you want a doctor to stick a sonic probe up her privates to see how far along she might be? This action is what the voters of Virginia want. This is much more intrusive than a sonogram. In my day, once the blood work came back with a positive, the probing was no longer necessary. In many cases the intrusion brings bacteria that hurts the fetus and mother.
As I wrote to Rachel Maddow this morning…It is time to bring back the Midwives. If women are healthy and not afraid of birth, there is no reason to even see a doctor. Giving birth is not a punishment for having sex and can be done with little stress.
However this is arranged it should be done under the approval of the mother. Many men would rather play golf but many women have their babies with their mothers or friends to guide them.
woody188
No, Santorum does not appeal to me at all. I don't typically find myself attracted to religious extremists with histories of ethics issues.
I don't necessarily believe that many Republicans do want him Sandy. I believe the whole primary is a sham. There is no way that Santorum can spend so little and be so successful. That's why I posted what I did trying to spread awareness.
KishinD
It's also worth noting that in South Carolina, Gingrich won the primary after cancelling a campaign event due to lack of attendance. Does that seem right to you?
I'm concerned about the reek of fish from the entire American electoral process. This November, I'll be organizing an exit poll in my state to attempt to expose voting fraud, and will be urging #Occupiers across the country to do the same. I want more evidence that this government is illegitimate before making the case that it needs to be flushed.
Flushed as in "Keep the Constitution and Amendments, put the majority of representatives on trial for treason, and create a better, simpler system of laws." The exact form of the temporary provisional governing body of representatives and the selection process is TBD. The number of representatives per state should be proportionate to state population, an equal number elected and randomly selected, and blah blah blah. I have clearer ideas, but they're lengthy and not quite complete.
The point is: the people with the authority to change the status quo within our current systems are the ones benefiting most from our current systems, and the election process practically guarantees that any new faces will be ready to play the same games. In short, the rules are so broken that they can't be fixed without first fixing the rules: a catch-22. The only solution is for the American People to establish a body outside of the current system, which has the power to act on the current system.
Santorum must be running the most successful campaign in the history of the United States. With a mere fraction of the donations and money of most major candidates, he has some how not only managed to stay in the race, but also come out on the top of the heap in many instances.
If these foolish candidates keep destroying each other there will be no GOP left for the Convention. The whole damn thing could cave in and leave nothing but more hatred and anger. The GOP is so full of anger that no one in their right mind would step in to ease the water. This morning I saw Santorum in Idaho where the center of white supremacy lives and he got a standing ovation. He was made for these people. All SAntorum has to sell is his faith and promise to keep it going in the government.
What has Romney got to sell? Had he kept his moderate points of view, he would be sitting on the top of the White House. But he caved in and he always will. We need to put the call out for some spine and balls but we may have to wait until a woman runs.
DOUG THOMPSON
Doug Thompson published his first story and photo at age 11 -- a newspaper article about racism and the Klan in Prince Edward County, VA, in 1958. From that point on, he decided to become a newspaperman and did just that -- reporting news and taking photos full-time at his hometown paper, becoming the youngest full-time reporter at The Roanoke Times in Virginia in 1965, and spent most of the past 58+ years covering news around the country and the globe. After a short sabbatical as a political operative in Washington in the 1980s, he returned to the news profession. Today, he is a contract reporter/photojournalist for Lee Enterprises, shoots news and sports video for area TV stations, and owns Capitol Hill Blue.
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Instead of Roast Chicken, the pupils were provided with Chicken, Chips and beans, Vegetable Cheese bake and Chicken rolls.
We are working to get the Ovens fully operational by the end of this week. We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused.


The sciatic nerve is the largest nerve in the human body, originating from the lumbosacral plexus (L4-5 and S1-3) and providing sensory and motor innervation to the lower extremity. The sciatic nerve exits the pelvis via the greater sciatic foramen below the piriformis muscle. In the gluteal region, the sciatic nerve courses between muscle layers. The nerve is deep (anterior) to the gluteus maximus muscle and is superficial (posterior) to the inner muscle layers (superior and inferior gemellus muscles, obturator internus muscle, quadratus femoris muscle).
It courses down the midline of the posterior thigh and branches into the tibial and common peroneal nerves usually in the popliteal fossa. Sciatic nerve block is most commonly performed for foot or ankle surgery.
The relationship of the sciatic nerve to surrounding bony structures. The red dotted box marks the target of the sciatic nerve for the Labat approach at the ischial spine level.
At the level of the ischial spine, the sciatic nerve lies on top of the ischial bone and lateral and posterior to the ischial spine. Important vascular landmarks medial to the sciatic nerve and immediately next to the ischial spine are the pudendal vessels (artery and vein).
Position the patient semi-prone (Sims' position) with the hip and knee flexed and the operative side uppermost.
After skin and transducer preparation (see transducer preparation section), place a curved low frequency 2-5 MHz transducer firmly on the buttock region to capture the best possible transverse view of the sciatic nerve.
Optimize machine imaging capability. Select appropriate depth of field (usually > 4 cm from the skin surface), focus range and gain.
Observe on the screen the transverse view of the sciatic nerve (short axis). The sciatic nerve in the gluteal region appears predominantly hyperechoic (bright) and is often wide and flat in the transverse view on ultrasound.
Transducer over right gluteal region.
Perform a systematic anatomical survey from cephalad to caudad and from superficial to deep.
First identify the bony structures that are adjacent to the sciatic nerve. Locate the ischial bone (a hyperechoic line with the bony shadow underneath). Locate the widest portion of the ischial bone and the ischial spine medially.
The bony segment at the level of the ischial spine (A) is the widest compared to the bony segments cephalad (B) and caudad (C).
Locate the bulky gluteus maximus muscle (GMM) that is superficial and posterior to the sciatic nerve. The sciatic nerve is expected to lie between the GMM and ischial bone.
May use color Doppler to locate the pudendal vessels (artery and vein) that are adjacent to the ischial spine, all medial to the sciatic nerve.
Another vascular structure that may be noted immediately adjacent to the sciatic nerve is the inferior gluteal artery.
Angle the transducer slightly cephalad or caudad to capture the best possible transverse view of the sciatic nerve.
Locating the sciatic nerve in this region can be challenging because of the required depth of penetration especially when there is an abundant amount of overlying adipose tissue.
The sciatic nerve can be wide but thin. It can be difficult to separate the thin sciatic nerve from the overlying gluteus maximus muscle layer in the transverse view.
Follow the nerve by scanning proximally (cephalad) and distally (caudad) to follow the course of the nerve. It may be necessary to first identify the nerve in the subgluteal region and then trace the nerve proximally should visualization be difficult.
Ultrasound guided sciatic nerve block in the gluteal region is considered an ADVANCED skill level block.
The sciatic nerve may be difficult to visualize in this region because of the required depth of beam penetration and lower image resolution from the use of a lower frequency transducer. The overlying adipose tissue in the buttock may be sizable, the sciatic nerve may be quite flat in the transverse view and the required angle of needle penetration may be quite steep.
For the In Plane approach, insert a 8 cm 22G insulated block needle on the outer (lateral) end of the ultrasound transducer after skin local anesthetic infiltration. Advance the needle along the long axis of the transducer in the same plane as the ultrasound beam. In this way, the needle can be visualized in real time at the time of needle advancement towards the target nerve.
Advance the needle through the gluteus maximus muscle to reach the sciatic nerve above the ischial bone.
Because of the depth and the angle of needle penetration (often steep, > 45 degrees), it is often not possible to accurately visualize the needle shaft and tip. Most commonly, needle and tissue movements are observed during needle advancement.
Nerve movement may be observed upon needle contact. Additionally electrical stimulation is recommended to confirm needle to nerve contact.
Observe the pattern of local anesthetic spread around the target nerve in real time during injection. One may adjust needle position half way during injection to optimize local anesthetic spread.
For the OOP approach, align the nerve target at the midpoint of the transducer and then insert the block needle in the same location.
The OOP approach is often used for catheter insertion.
For both IP and OOP approaches, scanning prior to needling will determine the angle, distance and depth of needle penetration.
Observe tissue and needle movement as the needle is advanced towards the target penetration.
Clear identification of the needle tip can be technically challenging.
Aim to deposit local anesthetic around the sciatic nerve circumferentially.
However, this may be challenging because the sciatic nerve in this region may be flat and thin in cross section. It is common to find local anesthetic on only one side of the nerve after a single injection.
Injection to the other side of the nerve may require a second needle insertion site. A hypoechoic (fluid) expansion can be seen during local anesthetic injection.
Expansion in the gluteus maximus muscle indicates superficial intramuscular injection. Advance the needle accordingly.
The pudendal vessels are vascular landmarks at the level of the ischial spine. The vessels are usually visualized adjacent to the ischial spine and medial to the sciatic nerve. It is possible to use Color Doppler or Color Power Doppler to identify the pudendal vessels (artery and vein).
Another vascular landmark at the level of the ischial spine is the inferior gluteal artery. This structure is usually visualized adjacent to the sciatic nerve. This small artery is more lateral than the pudendal artery.
Catheter is not commonly inserted at this proximal location for continuous sciatic nerve block.


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Q: setMobileDataEnabled does not work on emulator? I'm trying to work with the setMobileDataEnabled method of ConnectivityManager and for some reason i get different results on my emulator and actual device.
On my device (Nexus One, running CyanogenMod 7.0) it works perfectly fine when calling this function and setting the mobile data setting correctly (after getting to this function using reflection):
ConnectivityManager connService = (ConnectivityManager) p_context.getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);

if (null != connService)
{
    try
    {
        Method setMobileDataEnabledMethod = connService.getClass().getDeclaredMethod("setMobileDataEnabled", boolean.class);

        if (null != setMobileDataEnabledMethod)
        {
            setMobileDataEnabledMethod.invoke(connService, true);
        }
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        // Error
    }
}

The problem is that when I'm using the same code on the emulator I'm getting the following exception:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at android.net.ConnectivityManager.setMobileDataEnabled(ConnectivityManager.java:379)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission denial: writing to secure settings requires android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS
    at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1247)
    at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1235)
    at android.net.IConnectivityManager$Stub$Proxy.setMobileDataEnabled(IConnectivityManager.java:540)

Nowhere in the documentation (that I could find...) it states that the "WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS" permission is required for this function and I wonder if this is just an emulator issue or the fact that on my device it works is just some weird coincident ?

A: This is a secure setting, you need to be a application with system permissions to set this value. For that you need to sign your application with vendor release keys which i am not sure will be a scalable solution considering you have so many versions of vendor builds of android.
Instead you can try prompting user to launch that screen and set the value.


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